Everywhere across Missouri, more foster homes are needed. Since the inception of Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services program in 2020, Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries has licensed 89 new foster families and expanded into the Moberly and Jefferson City areas. Now, with the hiring of Brittany McCaskey as our Hannibal Area Coordinator, we are excited to announce that our foster care licensing and support services are moving into the NE Missouri region, also!
Brittany and her husband Josh formerly worked for Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries as foster parents in the Hubbell Home and the Petersheim Home. Shortly after they adopted three children from foster care in December of 2020, they made the decision to move back closer to friends and family near Hannibal.
“Before we left Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries, Josh and I both asked if we could launch a Foster Care Services in the Hannibal area,” Brittany said. “The area really needs it. My parents were foster parents for 13 years in NE Missouri. My youngest brother and sister were adopted from foster care. I knew there weren’t a lot of other foster homes around when I lived there, and I just really had the desire to bring hope and change to Hannibal. In a previous job as a community support specialist, I found out that Hannibal and Marion County have a higher overdose rate than the national average. That definitely increases the number of children going into foster care.”
“By bringing Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s Foster Care Services into the NE Missouri area, I hope to love, serve and help promote positive change in the community where I grew up,” Brittany continued. “I want to facilitate more well-equipped foster homes, to serve and love more kids.”
